Colonization

Timeline

1000 BC

Phoenician trading colonies in the western Mediterranean.
800 BC - 600 BC

Main period of Phoenician colonization.
800 BC - 500 BC

Greek colonization of the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
c. 750 BC

Phoenicians found the colony of Motya on Sicily.
743 BC

Corinthians found the colony Syracuse in Sicily.
734 BC

Corinthians found the colony Syracuse in Sicily.
580 BC - 376 BC

Carthage and Greece fight for dominance in Sicily.
500 BC

Carthage expands into southern Spain.
396 BC

The Carthaginian city of Lilybaeum is founded on Sicily.

Colonization Books

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared M. Diamond

W. W. Norton & Company (01 April 1999)

Price: $12.21

Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

Penguin (Non-Classics) (28 January 2003)

Price: $10.40

The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall...

Susan Wise Bauer

W. W. Norton & Company (17 March 2007)

Price: $19.77

The Histories

Herodotus

Penguin Classics (29 April 2003)

Price: $7.91

Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the...

Laurence Bergreen

Harper Perennial (01 November 2004)

Price: $11.48

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Map of Tartessos with Phoenician and Greek colonies

Greek and Phoenician Colonization

Greek Colonies of the Northern Black Sea

Greek & Phoenician Colonies

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